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PHYS645: Electron Theory of Solids I

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Offering:
Fall, Class 3, cr. 3.

Prerequisites:
PHYS 601, PHYS 545, and PHYS 661, or equivalent.
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Description:
Theory of the electron liquid; Fermi liquid theory; Feynman diagrams and path integrals; collective modes and screening; linear response and fluctuation-dissipation theorems; transport; impurity scattering; transport in interacting mesoscopic systems; magnetism; Bosonic superfluids; BCS and Landau-Ginzburg theories of superconductivity.

Instructor(s):
Nie, Laimei

Email:
nlm@purdue.edu

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